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Nintendo 64From Emu Bomb
[edit] System InfoThe Nintendo 64 (ニンテンドー64, Nintendō Rokujūyon?), often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit processor, it was released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, March 1, 1997 in Europe and Australia, and September 1, 1997 in France (the system also saw a release in Brazil, in partnership with Gradiente Eletrônica S/A). The N64 was released with two launch games (Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64) plus one in Japan (Saikyō Habu Shōgi). The N64's suggested retail price was US$199 at its launch and it was later marketed with the slogan: "Get N, or get Out!" [edit] Emulators Website: http://www.pj64.net/ Pentium III 600 Mhz or better 128 Mb. RAM or more Video card with 16 Mb. Video RAM or more Windows 95/98/Me + DirectX 6.0 (latest version of DirectX recommended) Project64 works best with these video cards: TNT, TNT 2, GeForce, GeForce 2, ATI Radeon OR better Project64 is not known to work well with these video cards: Matrox G200 and G400 (blending errors) ATI Rage Pro (misses some 3D functionality) 3DFX Voodoo Banshee (has bad DirectX drivers) 3DFX Voodoo 1 or 2 (secondary 3D cards are not supported) Website: http://1964emu.emulation64.com/ 1964 can support some of project 64's plugins, in some cases this option is recomended. Emulating the Nintendo 64 is not easy. 1964 needs a reasonable PC to run comfortably. Pentium III 800 Mhz. or better GeForce 2 or better DirectX 8.0 or better 128 Mb. RAM or better Website: [??? ???] UltraHLE pioneered a new approach to emulation. Instead of trying to emulate all components of of a game console (such as CPU) as accurately as possible, it tries to recognize what a game is trying to achieve (like playing a sound) and emulates that function. This is known as High Level Emulation (HLE) and it is what makes UltraHLE and other emulators which have incorperated (some of) this technology so relatively fast. It has a drawback however. If game does things a little differently the emulator won't be able to accuratly guess what the game is doing, which means the game may not play properly. Bacause of this limitation HLE emulators usually only work well with the games they have been specifically optimized for. Because there was never an update to UltraHLE, this would have been a major limiting factor for it's success as newer games probably wouldn't run on it. Fortunately most of the information on how UltraHLE should treat and emulate games was stored in a seperate INI file. Certain people started to experiment with UltraHLE and expanded and enhanced this INI file, which allows UltraHLE play a lot more games. As such, be sure to download an updated INI file if you want to try UltraHLE. Missing GLIDE2X.DLL? There is one major limitation of UltraHLE which has probably plagued almost everyone since it's release. It was designed to operate exclusively on 3DFX Voodoo 1 and 2 secondary 3D cards. By default it will not run on any kind of other video card because it can't find the "Glide" drivers it needs (specifically the file GLIDE2X.DLL). Of course a solution was designed for this. The Glide drivers can be emulated by using a "Glide Wrapper". These wrappers redirect the commands issued by UltraHLE to your video card, no matter which one you are using (depending on which kind of wrapper you use).
Website: http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
Description: Mupen 64 is just another Nintendo 64 emulator. The only reason why it's here is because it has made a good progress in compatibility and because it has been ported to other operating systems as well. Give it a try. Website: http://daedalus.boob.co.uk/
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